Jury Team
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Eva Aridjis
Award-Winning Director of Chuy el hombre lobo, The Favor, La Santa Muerte, Ninos de la calle at Morelia Film Festival, Screenwriter of Netflix’s Narcos: Mexico
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Armando Croda
Award-Winning Director-Editor of Ya me voy, Loudmouth, Jay Myself, Straighten Up & Fly Right at Slamdance, Streamed on Netflix, Amazon, Showtime, Founder of MU Media
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Sebastián Díaz
Emmy-Award PBS Editor of Turning Point, Cypress Hill, Op-Docs, Award-Winning Director A Thousand Pines, Tonita’s, Tierra brillante
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Alessio Giorgetti
Award-Winning Filmmaker at Honolulu Film Festival, Programming Director of Malastrana Film Series Giallo Fever! Anthology Film Archives NYC
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Julia Gorbach
Emmy Award-Winner Creative Producer for {The And}, The Dig, Founding Member of The Skin Deep, Founder of Wild Minds
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Idil Ibrahim
Award-Winning Director of Tribeca Studios’ In Her Element, Hurricane, Sega at BlackStar, Zanzibar, acquired by Canal+, screened at Sundance, Cinéma du Réel, Rotterdam, Toronto Festival
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Alejandro Mejia AMC
Award-Winning Director of Photography for 499, The Knife, In the Summers, Sons of Monarch at Tribeca, Sundance, Camerimage, Panavision, Critics’ Choice Nominee
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Pepe Mogt
Grammy-Award Artist, Fussible, Founder of Nortec Collective
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Karl Pettersen
Award-Winning Music Composer, Sustainability Leader, Top 100 Innovators & Entrepreneurs 2024, Founder of Pettersen Consulting LLC
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Antonio Scarlata
Director of Showtime’s 7 Deadly Sins, HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Funny or Die’s Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal: The Movie, Mansome: The Series, Founder of Skar Studios
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J. Xavier Velasco
Award-Winning Director of Zerch, Above & Below The Waves, Founder of Protofilms
Programming
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Angel Díaz
Festival de Cine del Valle de Guadalupe Community Screenings Organizer, Director of Indigenous Communities in the Department of Social Inclusion & Gender Equality, Kumeyaay Leader & Bule Singer, Auka® Brand
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Carlos Sarabia
Coordinator of CECUT’s Cineteca Tijuana, Movie Critic, Author of Las Muchachas Sólo Quieren Divertirse
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Dylan Verrechia
Festival de Cine del Valle de Guadalupe® Founder & Programming Director, Award-Winning Auteur-Director (with ankylosing spondylitis disability) of Kumeyaay Land, La Pura Vida, Tierra Madre, Tijuana Makes Me Happy & Kids of the Majestic at Morelia, Slamdance, Artivist, Reeling, Latino & Native American Film Festivals, Executive Producer of Verrechia Films LLC (Arakimentari, Padre Nuestro, The Alley Cat, Sega, BlackCard, videos for The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Jay-Z, Rihanna, Kanye West, Beck, Wu-Tang Clan, Nortec, winner at Sundance, SXSW, Chicago, BFF, streamed on HBO, Canal+, Netflix, Cineclick, Amazon, iTunes, MUBI)